Editing Burgenland (section)

==Culture==
[[File:Wiener Blut Morbisch.jpg|thumb|{{center|[[Seefestspiele Mörbisch]]}}]]
The cultural offerings are diverse and especially in the summer famous for the [[Seefestspiele Mörbisch]] and the [[Nova Rock Festival]] with numerous international rockbands.

The permanent exhibition at [[Forchtenstein Castle]] shows an impressive collection of the dukes of [[Esterházy]], at whose court at [[Schloss Esterházy|Esterházy Palace]] worked the world-famous musician [[Joseph Haydn]], who composed from the [[Burgenland Croatian]] folk-song ''"V jutro rano se ja stanem"'' ("In the morning I rise up early") the melody of ''"[[Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser]]"'' ("God save Franz the Emperor"), which became the melody of today's [[national anthem of Germany]].<ref>Slavonic and East European review, Volume 34, page 2, University of London. School of Slavonic and East European Studies, Committee of American Scholars, Sir Bernard Pares, Robert William Seton-Watson, Harold Williams, Norman Brooke Jopson, Published by the Modern Humanities Research Association for the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 1955.</ref> There are also cultural events organized by the minorities such as Croatian or Hungarian folk evenings.

The dialect spoken in Burgenland is called Hianzisch.

People from Burgenland tend to be the butt of a [[joke cycle]] by people from other regions of Austria, similar to the [[Germany|German]] [[East Frisian jokes]]. These jokes portray people from Burgenland as dumb or slow on the uptake.<ref>[https://buzz.oe24.at/spass/die-lustigsten-burgenlaender-witze/180153401 Die lustigsten Burgenländer-Witze.] oe24.at, retrieved 22 March 2023.</ref><ref>[https://www.witze.tv/lustige-witze/burgenlaender-witze/ Burgenländer-Witze – Hier findest du die lustigsten!] witze.tv, retrieved 22 March 2023.</ref><ref>[https://witze.at/kategorie/37/burgenlaender/ Burgenländer-Witze]. witze.at, retrieved 22 March 2023.</ref>